Australian watchdog sues Microsoft for misleading 2.7 million M365 users — deliberately hiding a cheaper Classic subscription plan without Copilot

Microsoft has been under scrutiny by antitrust watchdogs after rivals, including Salesforce‘s Slack, cited anticompetitive business practices for bundling Teams with Office 365. Consequently, the company caved to the pressure and unbundled Teams from its suite of productivity tools, avoiding a hefty fine from the European Commission.

But as it now seems, the software giant may have bigger fish to fry after the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) filed a lawsuit against it for allegedly…